Recent Books

FSU History faculty members have published more than 75 books on a wide range of subjects and won half a dozen awards in the process. Review the full booklist below and visit the faculty bios to learn more about the authors.

By the Noble Daring of Her Sons: The Florida Brigade of the Army of Tennessee

By the Noble Daring of Her Sons: The Florida Brigade of the Army of Tennessee

Jonathan C. Sheppard (PhD, 2008)
Democratizing Luxury: Name Brands, Advertising, and Consumption in Modern Japan

Democratizing Luxury: Name Brands, Advertising, and Consumption in Modern Japan

Annika Culver
The Life and Death of Ryan White

The Life and Death of Ryan White

Paul Renfro
Write to Return Huguenot Refugees on the Frontiers of the French Enlightenment

Write to Return

Bryan Banks (PhD, 2014)
The Letters of George Long Brown: A Yankee Merchant on Florida’s Antebellum Frontier

The Letters of George Long Brown: A Yankee Merchant on Florida’s Antebellum Frontier

James Denham
Florida's Peace River Frontier

Florida's Peace River Frontier

Canter Brown, Jr.
The Boss of New Orleans: Martin Behrman and Machine Politics in the Crescent City

The Boss of New Orleans: Martin Behrman and Machine Politics in the Crescent City

Ralph Eric Criss (PhD, 2015)
Urban Disasters

Urban Disasters

Cindy Ermus (PhD, 2014)
Isaac Murphy: The Rise and Fall of a Black Jockey (Black Lives)

Isaac Murphy: The Rise and Fall of a Black Jockey (Black Lives)

Katherine Mooney
The Oxford History of the Third Reich

The Oxford History of the Third Reich

Robert Gellately
Social Justice and Liberation Struggles: The Photojournalistic and Public Relations Career of Alexander McAllister Rivera Jr.

Social Justice and Liberation Struggles

Glen A. Harris (PhD, 2003)
The Great Plague Scare of 1720: Disaster and Diplomacy in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World

The Great Plague Scare of 1720: Disaster and Diplomacy in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World

Cindy Ermus (PhD, 2014)
The Art of Childbirth: A Seventeenth-Century Midwife's Epistolary Treatise to Doctor Vallant: A Bilingual Edition Volume 98

The Art of Childbirth

Cathy McClive
The Kurdish Nobility in the Ottoman Empire

The Kurdish Nobility in the Ottoman Empire

Nilay Özok-Gündoğan
Hierarchies at Home: Domestic Service in Cuba from Abolition to Revolution (Afro-Latin America)

Hierarchies at Home: Domestic Service in Cuba from Abolition to Revolution (Afro-Latin America)

Anasa Hicks
From Swamp to Wetland: the Creation of Everglades National Park

From Swamp to Wetland: the Creation of Everglades National Park

Chris Wilhelm
Strange Brethren: Refugees, Religious Bonds, and Reformation in Frankfurt, 1554-1608

Strange Brethren: Refugees, Religious Bonds, and Reformation in Frankfurt, 1554-1608

Maximilian Miguel Scholz
Japan's Empire of Birds: Aristocrats, Anglo-Americans, and Transwar Ornithology

Japan's Empire of Birds: Aristocrats, Anglo-Americans, and Transwar Ornithology

Annika Culver
Myths and Memories of the Black Death

Myths and Memories of the Black Death

Ben Dodds
A Religious History of the American GI in World War II (Studies in War, Society, and the Military)

A Religious History of the American GI in World War II (Studies in War, Society, and the Military)

G. Kurt Piehler
Beyond the Law: The Politics of Ending the Death Penalty for Sodomy in Britain

Beyond the Law: The Politics of Ending the Death Penalty for Sodomy in Britain

Charles Upchurch
Women Defying Hitler: Rescue and Resistance under the Nazis

Women Defying Hitler: Rescue and Resistance under the Nazis

Nathan Stoltzfus
The Power of Populism and People: Resistance and Protest in the Modern World

The Power of Populism and People: Resistance and Protest in the Modern World

Nathan Stoltzfus
The Chronicle of an Anonymous Roman: Rome, Italy, and Latin Christendom, c. 1325-1360

The Chronicle of an Anonymous Roman: Rome, Italy, and Latin Christendom, c. 1325-1360

James Palmer